Nov 2017 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Santa Monica, California

• Worked on a large-scale monolithic software suite during a long-term transition to a microservices based system.
• Debugged various issues within the Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
• Helped implement branched pre-screening questions feature in ATS.
• Implemented automated tests: Unit tests, Integration test, document manual testing procedures.
• Earned a certification for AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Mar 2014 – Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Marina Dey Rey, CA

• ● Helped design and implement the move from a monolithic application to a microservices infrastructure. Created a fault tolerant, scalable infrastructure handling millions of requests per day.
• ● Helped lead and orchestrate migration of infrastructure from Heroku and other third party services to being entirely hosted on AWS. Resulted in a year over year savings of 46.8% on infrastructure expenditures.
• ● Helped architect a RESTful API using a Node.js backend to power company’s core products. Played a key role in migrating Rails-based team to Node.js. Researched and taught team best practices, contributed to creating coding and development design guidelines, and mentored junior engineers through one on one interactions and giving tech talks.
• ● In a first step towards reducing legacy technical code debt, consolidated the frontend tech stack by introducing team to using a single frontend framework, creating a modular/reusable code base.
• ● Lead development of new frontend using React, redux, and a centralized RESTful API, as well as helped orchestrate launch of new site by working closely with cross department leads to conceptualize and redesign company’s main site.
• ● Implemented company’s first revenue stream while working closely with company stakeholders (Product, QA, Sales, Third Party Networks, Consultants) to research and set up advertising delivery infrastructure.
• ● Helped design and implement a Video CMS to power company’s video vertical and automate video publishing workflow.
• ● Researched and implemented several key site-wide features such as search, analytics, and A/B Testing.
• ● Created and open sourced a gulp plugin to automate the versioning of assets at deploy time. Available via npm as gulp-fingerprint: https://github.com/vincentmac/gulp-fingerprint
• ● Increased development velocity by re-architecting main site build system to a new Gulp-based build system.

May 2013 – Mar 2014 · 10 mos · Hermosa Beach, CA

• ● Implemented new development workflows for new projects with tools such as grunt.js, vagrant, bower, and yeoman.
• ● Implemented automated server provisioning with Chef and Ansible. Also automated application deployment with DeployHQ.
• ● Built an international/multilingual mobile web app for Avon using Backbone and Require.js with a node.js backend.
• ● Developed a sales tool for Lin Media that allows company reps to conveniently access sales materials (documents, videos, images) in any modern web browser. Also, created a Chrome App that leverages IndexedDB to store assets for offline use. The Chrome App uses the same codebase but leverages a separate build process.
• ● As part of the Chrome App, I developed and open sourced an adapter for Backbone that allows you to save models and collections directly to IndexedDB. Available via npm or bower as backbone-idb: https://github.com/vincentmac/backbone-idb
• ● Developed a generator for yeoman for scaffolding projects that use Browserify. Users are given the option to use Bootstrap or Foundation as a frontend css framework. Available via npm as generator-browserify: https://github.com/vincentmac/generator-browserify

Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr

Jul 2011 – May 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Systems Architect
• ● Architected a social commerce/rewards platform, refactoring portions of an existing MVC codebase, to run on EC2 and leverage S3 as a CDN to deliver static content
• DevOps
• ● Implemented new development workflows, switching team from SVN to Git, allowing for easy deployment to live production and development environments with the use of Gitolite
• Performance Optimization
• ● Evangelized and implemented client-side scripting, resulting in an 83% decrease in page load times (600% increase in page load performance)
• Third Party API Integration
• ● Integrated with third party client-side APIs such as Facebook and Google Maps
• API Design
• ● Separated and refactored existing code into a RESTful API for use with mobile and web apps
• ● Implemented Sphinx search over MySQL to return geospatially relevant data
• Video Production
• ● Produced, edited, and provided voiceover for company promo video: j.mp/QHzRUQ

Nov 2010 – Jul 2011 · 8 mos · Winston-Salem, NC/Los Angeles, CA

• Product Development and Data Extraction
• ● Developed and implemented internally used product to extract high-quality, meaningful data from irregularly formatted files: the data produced was a critical component of the company’s main offering
• Data Infrastructure Design
• ● Implemented a NoSQL(Cassandra) database to make unstructured and diverse data sets accessible in a consistent manner for use in company’s core product
• Business Analysis and Strategy
• ● Analyzed emerging technologies and trends in the digital media market and designed strategy and full specifications for a new digital media service

Jul 2010 – Jul 2011 · 1 yr

• Business Systems Planning and Implementation
• ● Consulted with heads of an international distribution company to update legacy systems
• ● Specified, designed, and implemented a new business system based on the latest cloud architecture for managing client’s portfolio of products around the world
• ● Specified solution reduced clients costs by 80%

May 2009 – Aug 2009 · 3 mos

• Cross-functional Communication
• ● Consulted with cross-functional department heads to determine current operations and needs in the Asia-Pacific region
• Global Systems Design
• ● Researched current and future Information Technology to leverage future business strategy
• ● Designed technology solutions to support corporate growth through minimizing staffing, eliminating redundancies, and recommended solutions that strategically align operations
• ● Recommended SAP solutions to centralize IT operations throughout the Asia-Pacific region, supporting over 2500 employees across 6 countries
• Strategic Planning
• ● Wrote a strategic IT Governance plan to guide Fossil’s rapid IT expansion in the Asia-Pacific region